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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 56 sec.) ; 311102341 bytes |
| Summary |
Following on from the national award-winning and critically acclaimed series Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta which aired in 2012, Once Upon A Time in Punchbowl is the untold story of how the Lebanese community overcame the odds and found its place in multicultural Australia.This four-part documentary series hears from community leaders, police, families and individuals, as they combine to tell the compelling and dramatic story of a proud and resilient community, under intense pressure and scrutiny.By the late 1990s the Lebanese Australian community is being terrorised by a violent criminal minority enforcing the drug racket with extreme violence and handguns. On the streets young teenagers aspire to the glamour of gangster rap, many working as runners and dealers for the drug gangs. Part of a slightly older generation George Basha and the El Kheir brothers Sal and Sam know the young runners are on a path leading to jail or death. In 1998 14-year-old Korean schoolboy Edward Lee is stabbed to death when he walks into the wrong Telopea St front yard. The police hit back with raids and arrests of criminals across southwest Sydney. A community's pain is played out in the media as politicians play the ethnicity card suggesting that Lebanese Australian gangs are a specific form of criminality. In 2000, around the time of the Olympics, a series of heinous gang rapes stir up the bigotry of the tabloid online and print media as an innocent community is outraged. (Part 2 of 4) (An SBS Production) (Documentary) M (A,L) CC **New Episode**Follow the conversation on Twitter: #PunchbowlSBS |
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Broadcast 2014-06-26 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation.
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Lebanese -- Social conditions.
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Lebanese -- Societies, etc.
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Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects.
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War -- Psychological aspects.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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Mcdonald, Malcolm, director
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Saw, Andrew, director
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Morice, Tara, cast
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